Prof Prabhu S Guptara's Biography

Prof Prabhu S Guptara's Professional Career

Career

univ lectr India 1970-79, mgmnt conslt and trainer 1979-95, fndr chm Prabhu Guptara Associates 1984-96, chm ADVANCE Management Training Ltd 1988-2003, gp dir Organisational Learning & Transformation Union Bank of Switzerland 1995-98, dir Orgn and Exec Devpt Wolfsberg (subsid of UBS AG) Switzerland 1999-2011; fndr ed Organisations and People 1994-97; prof or visiting prof: Int Inst for the Mgmnt of Telecommunications Univ of Fribourg Switzerland, European Inst of Purchasing Mgmnt, INSEAD France, Carlson Sch of Business Univ of Minnesota, MIT USA, Univ of St Thomas USA, Univ of Keio Japan, Univ of Sogang Korea, Rotterdam Sch of Mgmnt Netherlands 1990-93; distinguished prof of global business, mgmnt and public policy William Carey Univ India 2009-; distinguished speaker IndUS Forum USA 2012; lectured at: UNCTAD, Cncl of Europe, Univ of London, Univ of Oxford, Univ of Sorbonne, Univ of Warwick, Assoc Bank Inst (Frankfurt), Henley Mgmnt Coll, Int Inst for Mgmnt Devpt (Lausanne), Sloane Sch of Business (Wharton), Int Mgmnt Assoc of Japan, Singapore Inst of Mgmnt, Keizai Koho Centre of the Keidanren Japan, Sch of Mgmnt Univ of Pennsylvania USA; contrib to Gower Handbook of Management, Gower Handbook on Quality, International Encyclopaedia of Business and Management and other reference books, as well as to numerous newspapers and magazines incl: FT, Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, New Statesman, New Society, International Management, Jl of Japanese Trade and Industry, Training & Development (columnist); memb Cncl: Inst of Mgmnt, Int Fedn of Trg and Devpt Orgns, Assoc for Mgmnt Educn and Devpt, Ridley Hall Fndn 1998-2003; memb Organising Ctee: stars09 and stars 11, Zermatt Summitt 2010 and 2011; chair Career Innovation Res Gp 1998-, vice-chm Guildford Branch Inst of Trg and Devpt, judge MSC Nat Trg Awards 1988, judge Deo Gloria Award for Fiction 1990 (chm judges panel 1991 and 1992); govr Univ of Westminster (formerly Poly of Central London) 1989-92; Freeman: City of London, Worshipful Co of Info Technologists; currently or formerly MIMgt, MSPS, FRCS, FInstD, FIPD, FRSA

Prof Prabhu S Guptara's Publications

Books and Publications

philosophy and spirituality related works: Indian Spirituality (1984), Yoga: a Christian Option? (jtly, 1985); business related works: The Basic Arts of Marketing (3rd edn, 1990), Top Executives in the Global 100 Companies and their IT-Competence (1998); ed: The Lotus: An Anthology of Indian Religious Poetry in English (1998), Leela Dharmaraj 1923-1972 Selected Poems (1979, 2 edn 1988); bibliographical work Black British Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present: The First Bibliography (1986); poems published in numerous jls and anthologies, articles published in numerous publications

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